Filing device



.K.SPRAGUE Sept. 15, 1925.

FILING DEVICE Filed Jan. 5. 1923 UVVENTUR. Kenna A? BY I 7 Z T NEYS Patented Sept. 15, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFF ca. j

KENKETH SPBAGUE,

or Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF '10 MAYO REISS AND JOSEPH IR'IIEKIN'D.v

FILING DEVICE.

:Appflcation Med January s, was. 1 Serial No. 610,424.'

relation of various parts, members and fea.-

tures, of a filing device which is simple of construction and which will perform the function required of it in an economical and eflicient manner.

In practicing the invention, I may provide a series of cloth hammocks or other flexible means carried by or associated with bars at the ends of each hammock or flexible element, and which bars are movable upon a frame. The said frame is so constructed that it may conveniently be fitted within a. drawer of a desk or filing the necessity of providing a form offrame of fixed length. Referring to the drawing,v

v Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view,

certain parts ness, showing the improved filing device within a drawer, and Figures 2 and 3illustrate certain forms that the franie may assume in practicing the invention.

Corresponding parts in all the figures are designated by the same reference characters.

Referring with particularity to the drawing, the improved filing device is designated as an entirety by A, and which filing device as an entity is adapted to be receivable within the confines of a drawer member B.

A filin device of this character is useful for the fi ing of letters, index cards and the like, and does away with the ordinary type of follower-block. Furthermore, a device of this character makes it a simple matter to transfer files from one drawer, say a temporary drawer, to a permanent drawer 'by simply lifting out. the filing device, a

feature of great importance, as it will do with confusion and scattering of away the contents of the filing itself not papers, being include a series of hammocks a: or other flexible-elements adapted to be associated with a series of bars 15, termed riders, which are The invention con device without being broken away for 'cleardisturbed. The filing device A may provided with "transverse openings 1 adjacent each end. of said'bars and the said bars are in turn slidable upon a frame 0. The frame c'may comprise two parallel rods 2 and 3 which are parallel with the longitudinal sides 4 of the drawer member A and immediately above the top edge of said sides,

as illustrated at 5. In this particular the frame c'may have a detachable end portion d, as illustrated in Figures 2 and 3,. or it maybe integrally formed with'the rods 2 and 3, as shown in Figure 1, and reference to Figure 1 shows that the rods 2 and3 are bent inwardly, as shown at 6, and then' curved slightly .and bent" straight downwardly so that a part 7 is approximately perpendicular with respect to the rods 2 and 3. A part 8 joins with the parts 7 and is approximately at right angles to said parts detachable, or if not detachable, assumes a lJ-shape, and if the rods 2 and 3 are tubular m formation, the parts 7 may be provided with extensions 9 adapted to be received within the tubular parts. The bars b are adapted to slide upon the rods 2 and 3, so that aspaced relation 'may exist between successive bars when papers or other material are carried within the depending folds of the hammocks a. This'arrangement will of course permit'free transverse movement of the bars I) along the frame a.

One feature of this invention resides in the arrangement of the front portion of the frame 2 illustrated at e, in Figures 1 and 2.

The common construction of a drawer is such that the drawer front designated as 20 must be braced, such bracing being shown at 21. Ordinarily this bracing is connected to the sides of the drawer such as shown positioning of the hammock frame between the sides at this zone of the drawer. As a consequence one to three inches of space is entirely lost within the drawer. To overcome this objection the front end of the frame a illustrated at e in Figures 1 and 7. It will thus be seen that the part d if 7 rods 2 and 3; that is to say, each rod 2 and 3 is bent inwardly as shown at 10, a distance suflicient to be inside the drawer, and

then straight downwardly as at 11, then bent as at 12 at right angles to the part 11, and then upwardly as shown at. 13, the parts 11, 12 and 13 forming a Ushaped portion or loop, there being a transverse piece 14; joined with the parts 13 at the upper end thereof. The transverse piece 14: may be nonmovable and the terminal portion 15 of the first hammock a may be united therewith and carried thereby; the other terminal portion of the first hammock being carried on the first movable cross-piece 1). Thus the space that ordinarily. would have been wasted in a drawer is utilized so that papers may be filed in the first hammock. This structure is likewise shown in Figure 2 and an end as 16 of-the memb'ere is insertable within a tubular member 17, said tubular member being substi- It is thus possible to send a man to a given office with parts d and e and tubular rods 17 and adjust the files to any length of desk without themecessity of taking measurements and then having the frame specially constructed at a factory. I

It is obvious that various changes and modifications and variations may be made J in practicing the' invention, in departure 4 from the particular showing, and that said variations and modifications may be made within a fair interpretation of the invention,

' and as disclosed by the appended-claims.

-Having thus disclosed my invention, I claim and desireto secure by Letters Patent' 1. A filing device having in combination meanest a series of hammocks for holding papers, bars for sides of the hammocks and a supporting frame; said framecomprising two substantially parallel rodsupon which said bars are freely movable, and a looped portion associated with each parallel rod; said looped portion being movable relative to the substantially parallel rods.

2. A filing device including a series of files, a frame member, and means carried by said frame member and joined with said files, whereby the files may be freely moved toward or away from each other; said frame being adapted to be fitted within a drawer member and said frame being formed atone end with a U-shaped portion.

A filing device adapted to be fitted within a drawer, including a frame member provided with two spaced and substantially parallel side rods paralleling the sides of the drawer, there being a substantially U shaped member forming an extension of each one of the substantially parallel rods,

4. A filing device adapted to be fitted within a drawer, including a frame memberprovided with two spaced and substantially parallel side rods parallelingthe sides of the drawer, there being a'substantially U shaped member forming an extension of each one of the substantially parallel rods, and a transverse piece connecting the'substan tially U-sha-ped extensions.

5. A filing device, having in combination,-

a series of hammocks for holding articles,

bars for sides of the hammocks and asup porting frame; said frame comprising'two substantially parallel spaced rods upon which said bars are movable; said rods being tubular in part, and a looped portion in part received within the tubular portions of said substantially parallel rods.

In testimony whereof, I have signed-my name to this specification.

KENNETH SFPRAGU 

